Since the ninth grade, school instructs us to read the classics, books knighted as literary genius for generations. Professors build careers around talking about one writer or a handful of paperbacks. And we’re taught not…
I set aside an hour before I fall asleep at night to read at least one chapter from a novel or non-fiction book. Sometimes I’ll even switch it up with a story from a magazine.…
Confession: I avoid rereading books when possible. But that’s not possible when you’re in grad school. Books you read in high school will appear on your class syllabus as required reading. And having read it…
The librarian called my house when I was five to tattletale on me. Earlier that day, I was exploring the children’s section at the local library, listening to an audiocassette about counting in Spanish in…
I had a blog back in 2008 when blogs were still fairly new. It was for my writing capstone class at college and every student was assigned to write blogs analyzing our reading assignments with…
My name is Kaitlyn and I’m a writer. Usually when I say this, silence enters the conversation. “You’re a journalist?” my stranger or family member will finally ask. “Not quite,” I say. “So you write…
